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Peru, Ecuador try
to solve land dispute
1LIMA, Peru — International
mediators have failed to re
solve a standoff between Peruvian
and Ecuadorean troops in a
stretch of disputed territory near
where the Andean neighbors
fought a brief war in 1995.
But representatives of the Unit
ed States, Brazil, Chile and Ar
gentina — who met in Ecuador’s
capital, Quito, on Sunday to try to
broker a deal — said they would
try again.
“The dialogue is not broken,”
said Hugo de Zela Martinez,
spokesman for the Peruvian dele
gation.
Peru is willing to resume the
talks with Ecuador’s new presi
dent, Jamil Mahuad, who took of
fice Monday, a Peruvian Foreign
Ministry communique said.
On Sunday, Mahuad asked for
mer President Carter to help me
diate the conflict. Carter, who is
in the United States, has not said
if he will accept the offer.
The latest flare-up in the long
running dispute between Peru
and Ecuador over 49 miles of un
marked border began Thursday,
when Peru charged that
Ecuadorean troops had entered its
territory. Ecuador denies it.
Peru and Ecuador fought brief
border wars in 1941, 1981 and
1995, but had appeared set to ne
gotiate a resolution to the dispute.
Scientific tests prove
meteorite from Mars
2 LONDON — A meteorite dis
covered in the Sahara Desert
was positively identified Monday
as originating from Mars, British
scientists said.
Out of 20,000 found world
wide, the 4.8-pound rock is only
the 13th meteorite proven to be
from the red planet.
Meteorite experts hope this lat
est discovery, called Lucky 13,
will tell scientists more about en
vironmental conditions on Mars
and aid in the search for evidence
of life on the planet.
“This is another piece in the jig
saw puzzle," said Colin Pillinger,
a space scientist at the Planetary
Sciences Research Institute in
Milton Keynes, 50 miles north
west of London. “And this partic
ular meteorite is exciting because
it seems to be from a different for
mation and possibly a different
age than the others.”
The meteorite’s age is not yet
known. But Pillinger said it left
Mars at least a million years ago,
when a comet or asteroid
smashed into the planet’s surface.
After drifting through space, the
meteorite eventually crashed onto
Earth, where it probably lay
undiscovered in the desert for
about 40,000 years, Pillinger said.
Other Martian meteorites have
been found to be 4.5 billion years
old.
Stones play Russia
for the first time
3 MOSCOW — The Rolling
Stones may be one of rock ’n’
roll’s hardiest bands, but their
Russian fans — who’ve waited 31
years to hear them perform in
Moscow — are hardier.
“Better late than never,” Keith
Richards quipped at a news con
ference Monday.
The four middle-aged rockers
play their first Russian concert in
Moscow’s Luzhniki sports stadi
um on Tuesday, three decades af
ter they first applied for permis
sion.
The problem, band leader Mick
Jagger said, was “entirely politi
cal.”
In 1967, the Soviets sent offi
cials to watch the Stones play a
concert in Warsaw, Poland, which
the band hoped would win them
permission to play in Moscow.
But unlike the Polish fans, the
Soviet officials didn't like what
they saw.
“They thought the show was so
awful, so decadent, that they said
this show would never happen in
Moscow,” Jagger said.
“We’re thankful to be here at
last,” he added.
The long-lived rock stars are 11
months into their “Bridges to
Babylon” tour, which will in
clude 90 concerts in 20 countries.
Jagger said he’s not sure what to
expect from Russian concertgoers.
Brush fires
near Gorge
still burn
The Associated Press
THE DALLES — A fire in the
Columbia River Gorge was about
60 percent contained Monday af
ter forcing temporary closure of
Interstate 84 a day earlier.
In all, weekend fires blackened
about 30,000 acres in Oregon.
The Gorge fire began Sunday
near Rowena, about 10 miles
northwest of The Dalles. It had
burned about 1,000 acres of grass,
brush and some scattered timber,
said Mike Fitzpatrick of the
Northwest Interagency Coordina
tion Center in Portland.
Oregon State Highway 30, the
Historic Columbia Highway, re
mained closed between Rowena
and the Dalles.
Most of the 500 Rowena-area
residents evacuated Sunday were
back home Monday.
About 200 firefighters were as
signed to the fire Sunday, Twen
ty-four more from Portland and
Gresham joined them on Monday
afternoon.
Firemen called in air tankers
and water-dropping helicopters,
while fire engines were at the
ready in case of structural fires.
Nobody has been injured and
no structures have been damaged.
The cause was under investiga
tion, but similar fires in the past
resulted from motorists who
threw burning cigarettes out of
their car windows, said Randy
Parr of the Oregon Emergency
Management Division.
In central Oregon, a fire that be
gan Saturday afternoon near
Clarno remained at about 8,000
acres of grass and juniper Monday
as firefighters worked to keep it
away from the Muddy Ranch
complex, the former Rancho Ra
jneesh compound near Antelope.
It was 25 percent contained.
The former compound is now a
Christian youth camp.
In southeastern Oregon, fire
fighters were trying to contain a
21,000-acre brush fire near the *
popular Steens Mountain recre
ation area.
More than 150 firefighters were
at the blaze in Harney County, said
Mark Armstrong, a U.S. Bureau of
Land Management spokesman.
Graduating Seniors and Graduate Students
Study Business
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with a Fulbrigh
in 1999-2000!
Information Meeting
Tuesday, August 11, at 3 pm
in Century Room F, EMU
Fulbright Application Deadline is
October 8,1998
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Teach Overseas
in 1999-2000
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Information Meeting Tuesday,
August 11, at 3 pm in Century
Room F, EMU
Fulbright Application Deadline is
October 8, 1998